[TowerTalk] KF4BWG

[Kelly Taylor]

It would be interesting to see whether cutting different strands of the ribbon cable different lengths had an appreciable effect on bandwidth. 

I suspect not, as the capacitance between conductors so close together may render the wire as one conductor the length of the longest strand. 

As for the Horse Fence, it seems that in ham radio, as with many things, one doesn’t necessarily need a good idea, one merely needs a new idea. 

73, kelly, ve4xt 

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> On Apr 18, 2019, at 18:02, David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com> wrote:
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> I'm pretty sure that has been tried in the past, but as far as I know you're not going to get much broadbanding out of a wider conductor (versus a single wire) unless that wider conductor is an appreciable portion of a wavelength in width.  I used EZNEC+ to compare a 75m Inverted-V with a wire diameter of 0.1 inch with one having a wire diameter of 2 inches (cylindrical, not ribbon) and the 2:1 SWR bandwidth changed from 150 KHz to 200 KHz.  I assume the ribbon would give somewhat less benefit than that, but how much less I don't know.
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> 73,
> Dave   AB7E
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>> On 4/18/2019 2:45 PM, Joe Partlow wrote:
>> Has anyone ever considered using computer ribbon cable to make a broadband dipole?
>> 
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